Recently as part of my academic studies I had to deploy a PySpark application to EMR Serverless. I encountered a couple of issues along the way - most of them related to me trying to get a newer version of Python running on the cluster. This post will cover the issues I encountered and how I resolved them. Read more

At PolymerSearch, we use CodeDeploy to deploy our services to AWS. We have a Slack channel where we post deployment notifications. We used to manually manage our infrastructure, but we recently switched to Terraform. Part of the migration required adding these Slack notifications, and since it wasn’t a straightforward process, this post will explain how to do it. Read more